Event 17

Elif Shafak

Imagine the World in the time of the Coronavirus 1: Social Justice and Dignity

Join us online: Saturday 23 May 2020, 8.30pm – 8.45pm BST

Virtual venue: Llwyfan Cymru Digidol – Wales Digital Stage

In this first of a series of short talks specially commissioned to engage with renewal the Turkish writer reflects on issues very close to her heart such as social justice, dignity, human rights, equality, public benefit, diversity…. and a new kind of political action. Elif Shafak is an activist for women's rights, minority rights, and freedom of speech. Her latest book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker prize and for the Prix de Livre Etranger in France.